Crone’s Corner
My Soul’s Journey
I
believe that I have a soul that chose to live this life that I am
living right now. This soul was a part of the Great Divine, the One
True Source and Center, The ONE…you can call it whatever you
like…when my soul was part of that Force, it was given the task of
learning what it would feel like to be a woman, the youngest of 6
children, a sister, a daughter, a college graduate, a divorcee, a
happily married wife, a battered woman, a molested child, a gardener,
an herbalist, a professional woman, a sports fan, a quilter, a Witch,
a Pagan, and every other subtle little nuance that comprises who I am
and it chose my life to be born into.
When my mom got
pregnant with me, my soul was ensuring that I would be and experience
all of the things that my soul was required to learn about when it
was with that Force and then when it was sure, I was born. During the
birth, my soul suffered great pain and trauma from the delivery,
after all, a small baby confined in its mother’s safe and warm womb
being thrust down a narrow birth canal and smooshed all to creation
and back and then thrust into a cold, sterile environment to be met
by a doctor with really cold hands – that’s traumatic! Well, the
trauma of all that caused my soul to start to forget that it was here
on a mission from the Force to learn all of those things.
So,
while I was learning how to speak and to communicate with the world
around me, I started to forget that I was a soul in this body. I
learned how to talk, but I forgot what I had to talk about…so I
started to live and to learn and to meet people and to experience
everything that there was to experience in this life. And some times
I would get a feeling of deja vu and wonder… “Hmmm, was I here
before, did I already experience this?” which serves as a
confirmation to me that I’m right about my thoughts about my soul
being here for a reason.
So I am learning and experiencing
everything here and now and when I am done learning and experiencing
and my soul has reached the end of its journey here, the soul will
need to report back to the Force in order to share these earthly
experiences and bring them back to the Force for the greater good of
all. That’s when the end of the world happens; when all of my soul’s
work here is done. When my soul’s mission in living this life is
complete, my soul with reunite with the Divine Force, the One True
Source and Center, the Divine Light, and it will start to heal from
all of the pains that it has experienced when it was here in this
shell.
Maybe some day, my soul will be required to be
born into another life for another experience. Who knows? Probably
me, but I forgot it! 🙂 But I think that there are a finite number of
souls in this world, they continually reincarnate until they have
learned all that they must learn for the Greater Good of All. They
continue to come back here to experience life’s lessons and bring
them back to reunite with the Divine. When all of the experiences
have been lived and learned, there will no longer be a need to come
back here. THEN,
and only then, do I believe there will be a true end to this world,
as we know it. That is not to say there won’t be something better,
free of all of these soul lessons and pains and aches, some better
place, some better ways and we will all be experiencing them. I
believe that I will be one of those souls that returns not for
experiences any longer, but to help those who must still come back
and learn, I will come back time after time after time to lend a
hand, to share love and understanding; those are the two biggest
emotions that I know.
I believe that souls are learning
their lessons and those lessons that were already required have
already been learned. The shift is coming from a place of
understanding and already knowing what is about to happen…like deja
vu…I can’t quite put my finger on it, and it feels familiar.
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About the Author:
Shirley Lenhard has been a practicing Witch and a Pagan since 1983 and lives in New England with her husband. She is employed full time in the legal field and has her Masters Degree in Psychology from the University of South Florida. Shirley looks forward to living her best possible life by giving back to the Pagan Community and has created the Facebook group “Pagan Plannertarium” where she provides a safe home for fellow pagans to have discussions about their path and to get free planner stickers and layouts. Shirley is a past writer for Llewellyn Publishing and The Peace Paper.